Reported by Andrew Peng
On July 5th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 79th Computer for Kids Lab, repairing and cleaning electronic devices in order to prepare them to send to children of low-income families. This helps the kids achieve academic success through possible access to technology.
The participants did the following:
52 – Stands Attached to Monitors
171 – Mice Cleaned
Sorted the following items for processing:
123 – Keyboards
39 – Mice
11 – Laptop Bags
33 – Phones
3 – Printers
13 – Monitor Stands
154 – Power Cords
1 – VGA Cords
88 – Power Adaptors
2 – Switch
2 – CPU
20 – RAM
45 – Docking Stations
9 – Power Supply
35 – Heat Sinc
35 – Motherboard
7 – CD Drives
76 – Misc. Hardware
So far, the San Diego branch students have accomplished the following since the first Computer for Kids Lab of this year:
- Diagnosed, repaired, tested, or sleeved 4,528 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 526 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 540 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 6,777 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 17,538 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Raymond Li, Jonathan Backues, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Derek Ma, Andrew Chen, Eddie Qiao, Jinghan Zeng, Lejia Zheng Jessy Zhang, Alex Hecker, Spencer Zhang, Benjamin Xia, Alex Liu, Brad Liu, Aaron Fan, and Tingting Zhu.
The following members participated in the second session: Raymond Li, Eric Lin, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Derek Ma, Andrew Chen, Gus Lundquist, Eddie Qiao, Jinghan Zeng, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Alex Hecker, Benjamin Xia, Natania Chen, David Wang, Tingting Zhu, Jonathan Backues, Ernest Lin, Willian Gao, and Andrew Lin
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 79th Computer for Kids Lab.
